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Timothy Monteath
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Assistant professor at Warwick University in the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies. Data, visualisations, finance, housing and maps among other things.
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The real question is does not knowing where your own infrastructure is help you take on more debt 🤔
FT headline, which reads: two uk water companies lack complete maps of sewage networks.
April 24, 2024 at 7:42 AM
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imagine paying 500 bucks for a second hand portal to zuck hellworld
It’s a meta quest 3 headset in a pawn shop window
February 2, 2024 at 9:24 AM
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Bonus points for this extremely strong legal argument in Walkers Sensations Poppadoms vs HMRC on.ft.com/3S2Ybm8
Screenshot from the FT that reads: Nominative determinism is not a characteristic of snack foods: calling a snack food “Hula Hoops” does not mean that one could twirl that product around one’s midriff, nor is “Monster Munch” generally reserved as a food for monsters.
January 19, 2024 at 9:36 AM
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It’s graphs like these are the reason I tell my students to keep an eye on the FT to catch the latest and greatest in data visualisation
January 19, 2024 at 9:32 AM
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It’s snowing!
A boring picture of snow out of a window.
January 16, 2024 at 10:48 AM
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New Geoforum paper out with Liam Keenan and Dariusz Wójcik where we explore the financialization of the global food system and explore how the concentration of corporate control is spatially and sectionally uneven

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A screenshot of the abstract: The global food system is in crisis. Climate change, ecological degradation, and economic and military conflict have exposed significant vulnerabilities in how the world produces, distributes, and consumes food. While governments aim to address these intersecting crises, they typically overlook another critical factor - the unprecedented concentration of corporate control in the global food system driven by contemporary processes of financialization. The incursion of new financial actors and imperatives have encouraged food firms to implement mergers and acquisitions (M&As) to improve financial performance, generate shareholder value, and capture market share. This has resulted in record levels of concentration, with more power controlled by fewer firms. Surprisingly, there is little empirical detail concerning the uneven pace, scale, and geographies of this concentration. Our article develops a novel M&A-based approach to investigate the concentration of Two chord diagrams. A heatmap.
December 5, 2023 at 9:36 AM
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I don't see what all the fuss is about its very simple. Don't destroy humanity goes at the top and the $13B from the worlds 2nd largest company goes at the bottom.
A diagram of OpenAI's corporate structure. From the FT: https://www.ft.com/content/6dd292c0-a551-4609-8649-f6b69b20f846#comments-anchor
November 20, 2023 at 4:33 PM
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Nick Moakes - in charge of investing the Wellcome Trusts £38bn - confirming that most venture capitalists are such idiots that you would be better off doing nothing with your money than giving it to them to ‘invest’
An image from the FT that reads: Moakes warned: “You need to be with the absolutely top-tier partners because the broad venture capital industry has done generally speaking a pretty poor job of delivering any illiquidity premium. If you invest in the median venture capital manager, you’re probably better off investing in an index fund.”
November 16, 2023 at 11:12 AM
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Let’s be clear, these are all good things.
A screenshot of text which reads: The file is split into three sections which have been titled “anti-racism”, which highlights posts in support of Black Lives Matter, “transgender advocacy” and “militant leftism”, which includes posts in support of strike action.
November 4, 2023 at 9:24 AM
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When you move from the first paragraph introducing your paper to the second paragraph introducing your data…
A screenshot of the FT which reads: As a general principle: the bigger a number, the more that number is underpinned by assumptions. We see this all the time in macro statistics, which are typically an informed guess based on extrapolations, guesswork, adjustment and a sprinkling of vibes. Swift’s Eras tour — currently 49 shows deep into a 146-date run — is within this mushy territory.
November 2, 2023 at 8:53 PM